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The Gift of Therapy: An Open Letter to a New Generation of Therapists and Their Patients (Paperback)
by (shelved 191 times as psychotherapy)
avg rating 4.32 — 30,783 ratings — published 2002
Love's Executioner and Other Tales of Psychotherapy (Paperback)
by (shelved 185 times as psychotherapy)
avg rating 4.25 — 43,074 ratings — published 1989
The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma (Hardcover)
by (shelved 147 times as psychotherapy)
avg rating 4.33 — 304,198 ratings — published 2014
Man's Search for Meaning (Paperback)
by (shelved 132 times as psychotherapy)
avg rating 4.37 — 926,287 ratings — published 1946
On Becoming a Person: A Therapist's View of Psychotherapy (Paperback)
by (shelved 130 times as psychotherapy)
avg rating 4.16 — 19,096 ratings — published 1961
Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, Her Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed (Hardcover)
by (shelved 90 times as psychotherapy)
avg rating 4.36 — 421,374 ratings — published 2019
Existential Psychotherapy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 83 times as psychotherapy)
avg rating 4.46 — 7,498 ratings — published 1980
The Theory and Practice of Group Psychotherapy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 71 times as psychotherapy)
avg rating 4.20 — 9,577 ratings — published 1967
Attachment in Psychotherapy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 65 times as psychotherapy)
avg rating 4.36 — 1,868 ratings — published 2007
Staring at the Sun: Overcoming the Terror of Death (Hardcover)
by (shelved 64 times as psychotherapy)
avg rating 4.23 — 17,082 ratings — published 2008
Trauma and Recovery: The Aftermath of Violence - From Domestic Abuse to Political Terror (Paperback)
by (shelved 62 times as psychotherapy)
avg rating 4.40 — 16,150 ratings — published 1992
The Drama of the Gifted Child: The Search for the True Self (Paperback)
by (shelved 58 times as psychotherapy)
avg rating 4.04 — 31,616 ratings — published 1979
No Bad Parts: Healing Trauma & Restoring Wholeness with the Internal Family Systems Model (Paperback)
by (shelved 55 times as psychotherapy)
avg rating 4.08 — 22,550 ratings — published 2021
Psychoanalytic Diagnosis: Understanding Personality Structure in the Clinical Process (Hardcover)
by (shelved 49 times as psychotherapy)
avg rating 4.52 — 4,303 ratings — published 1994
On Being a Therapist (Paperback)
by (shelved 49 times as psychotherapy)
avg rating 4.03 — 4,068 ratings — published 1986
When Nietzsche Wept (Paperback)
by (shelved 47 times as psychotherapy)
avg rating 4.36 — 87,086 ratings — published 1992
Momma and the Meaning of Life: Tales of Psychotherapy (Paperback)
by (shelved 46 times as psychotherapy)
avg rating 4.07 — 11,681 ratings — published 1999
The Examined Life: How We Lose and Find Ourselves (Paperback)
by (shelved 44 times as psychotherapy)
avg rating 3.95 — 18,639 ratings — published 2012
Cognitive Therapy: Basics and Beyond (Hardcover)
by (shelved 44 times as psychotherapy)
avg rating 4.22 — 3,528 ratings — published 1995
Creatures of a Day: And Other Tales of Psychotherapy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 42 times as psychotherapy)
avg rating 4.21 — 15,235 ratings — published 2015
Waking the Tiger: Healing Trauma (Paperback)
by (shelved 42 times as psychotherapy)
avg rating 4.06 — 10,758 ratings — published 1997
Games People Play (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 41 times as psychotherapy)
avg rating 3.71 — 42,412 ratings — published 1964
Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents: How to Heal from Distant, Rejecting, or Self-Involved Parents (Paperback)
by (shelved 40 times as psychotherapy)
avg rating 4.35 — 101,226 ratings — published 2015
The Schopenhauer Cure (Paperback)
by (shelved 40 times as psychotherapy)
avg rating 4.28 — 32,285 ratings — published 2005
The Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog: And Other Stories from a Child Psychiatrist's Notebook (Hardcover)
by (shelved 35 times as psychotherapy)
avg rating 4.58 — 43,930 ratings — published 2007
Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy: A Practitioner's Guide (Hardcover)
by (shelved 34 times as psychotherapy)
avg rating 4.52 — 1,150 ratings — published 2004
Trauma and the Body: A Sensorimotor Approach to Psychotherapy (Norton Series on Interpersonal Neurobiology)
by (shelved 34 times as psychotherapy)
avg rating 4.40 — 624 ratings — published 2006
The Interpretation of Dreams (Hardcover)
by (shelved 34 times as psychotherapy)
avg rating 3.84 — 83,028 ratings — published 1899
In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction (Hardcover)
by (shelved 33 times as psychotherapy)
avg rating 4.48 — 25,207 ratings — published 2007
A Way of Being (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as psychotherapy)
avg rating 4.22 — 3,061 ratings — published 1980
The Making of a Therapist (Hardcover)
by (shelved 32 times as psychotherapy)
avg rating 4.38 — 1,804 ratings — published 2004
Feeling Good: The New Mood Therapy (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as psychotherapy)
avg rating 4.06 — 34,656 ratings — published 1980
The Myth of Normal: Trauma, Illness, and Healing in a Toxic Culture (Hardcover)
by (shelved 31 times as psychotherapy)
avg rating 4.30 — 38,799 ratings — published 2022
Lying on the Couch (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as psychotherapy)
avg rating 4.08 — 25,045 ratings — published 1996
Complex PTSD: From Surviving to Thriving (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 30 times as psychotherapy)
avg rating 4.53 — 14,911 ratings — published 2013
Becoming Myself: A Psychiatrist's Memoir (Hardcover)
by (shelved 30 times as psychotherapy)
avg rating 4.18 — 9,343 ratings — published 2017
Thoughts Without A Thinker: Psychotherapy From A Buddhist Perspective (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as psychotherapy)
avg rating 3.97 — 4,435 ratings — published 1995
Hold Me Tight (Hardcover)
by (shelved 30 times as psychotherapy)
avg rating 4.12 — 23,629 ratings — published 2008
The Art of Loving (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as psychotherapy)
avg rating 3.99 — 99,672 ratings — published 1956
Internal Family Systems Therapy (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as psychotherapy)
avg rating 4.34 — 1,650 ratings — published 1994
Man and His Symbols (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as psychotherapy)
avg rating 4.18 — 35,529 ratings — published 1964
Memories, Dreams, Reflections (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as psychotherapy)
avg rating 4.17 — 39,970 ratings — published 1962
Attached: The New Science of Adult Attachment and How It Can Help You Find—and Keep—Love (Hardcover)
by (shelved 29 times as psychotherapy)
avg rating 4.12 — 131,308 ratings — published 2010
The Happiness Trap: How to Stop Struggling and Start Living: A Guide to ACT (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as psychotherapy)
avg rating 4.13 — 21,942 ratings — published 2007
The Polyvagal Theory in Therapy: Engaging the Rhythm of Regulation (Hardcover)
by (shelved 28 times as psychotherapy)
avg rating 4.35 — 1,880 ratings — published 2018
Healing the Fragmented Selves of Trauma Survivors: Overcoming Internal Self-Alienation (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as psychotherapy)
avg rating 4.51 — 1,776 ratings — published 2016
Psychoanalytic Case Formulation (Hardcover)
by (shelved 28 times as psychotherapy)
avg rating 4.50 — 913 ratings — published 1999
Motivational Interviewing: Preparing People for Change (Hardcover)
by (shelved 27 times as psychotherapy)
avg rating 4.27 — 4,360 ratings — published 1991
The Neuroscience of Psychotherapy: Building and Rebuilding the Human Brain (Norton Series on Interpersonal Neurobiology)
by (shelved 27 times as psychotherapy)
avg rating 4.33 — 572 ratings — published 2002
When the Body Says No: The Cost of Hidden Stress (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as psychotherapy)
avg rating 4.17 — 37,947 ratings — published 2003
“How does your patient, doctor?
Doctor: Not so sick, my lord, as she is troubled with thick-coming fancies that keep her from rest.
Macbeth: Cure her of that! Canst thou not minister to a mind diseased, pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow, raze out the written troubles of the brain, and with some sweet oblivious antidote cleanse the stuffed bosom of that perilous stuff which weighs upon her heart.
Doctor: Therein the patient must minister to himself.”
― Macbeth
Doctor: Not so sick, my lord, as she is troubled with thick-coming fancies that keep her from rest.
Macbeth: Cure her of that! Canst thou not minister to a mind diseased, pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow, raze out the written troubles of the brain, and with some sweet oblivious antidote cleanse the stuffed bosom of that perilous stuff which weighs upon her heart.
Doctor: Therein the patient must minister to himself.”
― Macbeth
“It is so much more threatening to have something out of hand than to believe that at any moment I can stop (I started to say "This foolishness") any time I need to. When I wrote the previous letter, I had made up my mind I would show you how I could be very composed and cool and not need to ask you to listen to me nor to explain anything to me nor need any help. By telling you that all this about the multiple personalities was not really true but just put on, I could show, or so I thought, that I did not need you. Well, it would have been easier if it were put on. But the only ruse of which I'm guilty is to have pretended for so long before coming to you that nothing was wrong. Pretending that the personalities did not exist has now caused me to lose about two days.
Three weeks later Sybil reaffirmed her belief in the existence of her other selves in a letter to Miss Updyke, the school nurse of undergraduate days.”
― Sybil: The Classic True Story of a Woman Possessed by Sixteen Personalities
Three weeks later Sybil reaffirmed her belief in the existence of her other selves in a letter to Miss Updyke, the school nurse of undergraduate days.”
― Sybil: The Classic True Story of a Woman Possessed by Sixteen Personalities
